Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To undo the effects of; annul.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To live in a manner contrary to; annul or undo by living.
- To bereave or deprive of life.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To ��ve in a contrary manner, as a life; to live in a manner contrary to.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
bereave ordeprive oflife ; makeunalive . - verb transitive To
live (a period of time) inreverse , so that it ceases to have happened.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb live so as to annul some previous behavior
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is my first poem at buzznet today, I will no more be posting at Poemhunter .. at poem hunter I was incomplete .. they read my words without seeing my pictures I decided it was time a take a long sabbatical from live poets unlive poetry.
2006 December 16 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2006
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Defrosted for the purposes of a police investigation, she rises and rushes toward the camera with an obvious rage to unlive.
31 Screams: Ketty Lester Arbogast 2008
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This is my first poem at buzznet today, I will no more be posting at Poemhunter .. at poem hunter I was incomplete .. they read my words without seeing my pictures I decided it was time a take a long sabbatical from live poets unlive poetry.
Motherhood begs on the Street « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2006
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They came to her so often now, these intelligent, untrained women, all eagerness to help, to forget and unlive, if they could, their wasted lives.
Dangerous Days Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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Pay up for sports or you don't get anything else you might want to watch on cable, unlive.
SI.com 2012
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Many entertain principles which they defy by their practices, and unlive all that they have believed; so that that which was intended for the cure of sin, by accident becomes its aggravation.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
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Thus they unlive their former lives, and commence Men, by forgetting that they ever have been Boys.
The History and Present State of Virginia, in Four Parts 1722
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As a concession to the “unlive” or general use web, ADDICT-O-MATIC also uses Yahoo’s web search facility.
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As a concession to the “unlive” or general use web, ADDICT-O-MATIC also uses Yahoo’s web search facility.
October 2008 2008
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Are you goin 'to unlive them years by stoppin' now? "
The Leatherwood God William Dean Howells 1878
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